Access can do (some) SQL! 😱

I’ve worked for US federal government, access to Access* was the only way I could do some things that wasn’t torture… severe torture.

*keep in mind that SQL is a query language. It can be implemented in different ways and not necessarily within an RDMS.

It would be one of the areas that would save the government a bunch of money. But, Ellison is in the Trump camp so it’s not going to happen.

When Elon was in his early teens, that word was a common pejorative.

If you look at Elon and interpret his behavior as if he was 13, it all makes a lot more sense.

Elon and DOGE should really look into all of those Oracle contracts the Fed pays for. Must be all inefficiency and fraud.

To nitpick, Census data is heavily queried. They use Oracle now, I believe.

Which applies to 99% of people making Delta Chat not a viable alternative to WhatsApp.

The Fediverse has the same problem that Linux, and Open Source in general, struggles with. The barriers to entry and network effects work against widespread adoption.

Until technology is packaged in a way that makes it dead simple and/or unavoidable, people won’t make the effort to move en masse.